Bug#382075: bibtex fails to handle unicode .bib files

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

tags 382075 + wontfix
severity 382075 wishlist
retitle 382075 bibtex should be able to handle unicode
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On 15.08.06 Ralf Stubner (ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de) wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 12:37 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> > martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote:

Hi,

> > > bibtex cannot deal with Unicode .bib files. It would be nice if
> > > this were possible, unicode is kind of a standard by now...
> > 
> > bibtex in tetex is not even 8bit-clean.  There's an 8bit-clean
> > bibtex implementation in texlive, but even there it is not the
> > default. Probably by a reason.
> > 
> > I know of one attempt to reimplement bibtex for Unicode support,
> > and additionally with the possibility to switch scripts and
> > languages on a per-entry basis, mlbibtex.
> 
> There is also Bibulus: <URL:http://www.nongnu.org/bibulus/>
> Having perl instead of the stack based language of BibTeX would be
> nice. Unfortunately development has stopped some time ago.
> 
For now I'd say this is not a bug, but a missing feature I'm setting
the bug to wishlist and tag it wontfix.

Sorry!

H.
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